DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 76 80
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 54 7 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.64% 0.63% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 0.68% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 43 6 42
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,063 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,750 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -12.70% +23.53%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,813 £87,500
90th Percentile - £93,750 -
South West median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -7.14% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 3,079 1,037 2,213
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 92.75% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 762 1,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,025 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 October 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (42.59%) AWS
3 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (24.07%) Terraform
6 12 (22.22%) Azure
7 11 (20.37%) Docker
8 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
8 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (16.67%) Agile
10 8 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (12.96%) Observability
11 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (12.96%) SaaS
12 6 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (11.11%) GitLab
12 6 (11.11%) Secrets Management
13 5 (9.26%) Bash
13 5 (9.26%) Business Continuity
13 5 (9.26%) Git
13 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
13 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
14 4 (7.41%) AI
14 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (7.41%) Configuration Management
14 4 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
1 2 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) AWS
2 12 (22.22%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) SaaS
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.70%) Route 53
7 2 (3.70%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) GitLab
2 5 (9.26%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) git-flow
3 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.85%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.85%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.85%) Postman
General
1 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (5.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.85%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (1.85%) Next.js
3 1 (1.85%) Node.js
3 1 (1.85%) React
3 1 (1.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) PropTech
3 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
4 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (16.67%) Agile
6 8 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (12.96%) Observability
7 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (11.11%) Secrets Management
9 5 (9.26%) Business Continuity
9 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.41%) AI
10 4 (7.41%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
10 4 (7.41%) Network Management
10 4 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) Bash
2 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.41%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.70%) Bicep
4 2 (3.70%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Grafana
2 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (3.70%) Puppet
3 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.70%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.70%) Google
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat